Pope Leo XIII on the Most Holy Eucharist: The chief means whereby men are engrafted on the divine nature

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MIRAE CARITATIS

ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII 

ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST



Given at Rome, at St. Peter's on the 28th day of May, being the Vigil of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, in the year 1902, of Our Pontificate the five and twentieth. 







To Our Venerable Brethren, the Patriarchs, Primates, 

Archbishops, Bishops, and other Local Ordinaries, 

having Peace and Communion